Monthly Archives: October 2017

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has called on regional countries to try and resolve their problems via dialog in order to avoid foreign interference. Rouhani made the remarks following a meeting with Iranian Judiciary Chief Sadeq Larijani and Iranian Parliament speaker Ali Larijani on Monday. He added that the US and ...

US President Donald Trump has distanced himself from his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort who was indicted with conspiracy against the United State and other charges as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. Shortly after the indictment was announced on Monday, the president took to Twitter to say ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has called for “calm” and “adherence to law” in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region following an outbreak of riot there after Massoud Barzani, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)’s president, announced that he would effectively step down early next month. The Iraqi premier made the request in ...

Kuwait’s emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, has accepted the resignation of the prime minister and his cabinet, asking them to continue important duties until a new cabinet is sworn in, Kuwaiti media has reported. According to Kuwait’s official state news agency, KUNA, Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Hamad al-Sabah ...

A Bahraini court has handed down heavy jail sentences to more than a dozen people in a mass trial as the regime in Manama continues its crackdown campaign against opposition and political dissent. Aged between 28 and 59, the convicts were accused of forming the so-called al-Basta group and planning to carry ...

South Korea and China have agreed to improve ties after a year-long strain over the deployment of an American missile system in South Korea. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a Tuesday statement that, “Both sides shared the view that the strengthening of exchange and cooperation between Korea and China serves ...

US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, General John Kelly, has called for an investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s role in a uranium deal between the US and Russia. Speaking to Fox News on Monday, Kelly said the public demanded explanations about the Uranium One deal that ...

Saudi Arabia has unveiled plans to extract its own uranium as part of efforts to bolster its nuclear program and attain “self-sufficiency” in the production of “nuclear fuel.” Hashim bin Abdullah Yamani, head of the Saudi government agency tasked with nuclear plans, the King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy ...

Independent US Senator Bernie Sanders would have defeated President Donald Trump in the general election had he secured the Democratic nomination last year, according to the pollster for Trump’s election campaign. Speaking at a Harvard University Institute of Politics event Monday, Tony Fabrizio acknowledged that Sanders could have won the ...

The Taliban militant group in Afghanistan says an American professor kidnapped by the group is in dire health condition and needs urgent medical attention. Kevin King, who is one of two professors from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) abducted in the capital, Kabul, last year, is in a “dangerous” ...